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Susan Rice biography - Added 16 hours ago

NAME _ Susan Elizabeth Rice BIRTH YEAR _ 1964 EXPERIENCE _ Senior foreign policy adviser, Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008; senior fellow in foreign policy, Brookings Institution, 2002-present; senior adviser...

Janet Napolitano biography - Added 16 hours ago

NAME _ Janet Ann Napolitano AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION _ 51; Nov. 29, 1957; New York, N.Y. EXPERIENCE _ Arizona governor, 2003-present; Arizona attorney general, 1999-2003; attorney, Lewis and Roca, 1997-1998; U.S....

Robert Gates biography - Added 16 hours ago

NAME _ Robert Michael Gates AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION _ 65, Sept. 25, 1943, Wichita, Kan. EXPERIENCE _ Secretary of defense, 2006-present; president, Texas A&M University, 2002-2006; interim dean, George Bush School...

Hillary Rodham Clinton biography - Added 16 hours ago

NAME _ Hillary Rodham Clinton. AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION _ 61; Oct. 26, 1947; Chicago, Ill. EXPERIENCE _ U.S. senator for New York, 2001-present; first lady of the United States, 1993-2001; partner, Rose Law Firm,...

James Jones biography - Added 16 hours ago

NAME _ James Logan Jones. AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION _ 64; Dec. 19, 1943; Kansas City, Mo. EXPERIENCE _ President and chief executive officer of U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy, 2007-present;...

Eric Holder biography - Added 16 hours ago

NAME _ Eric Himpton Holder Jr. AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION _ 57; Jan. 21, 1951; New York, N.Y. EXPERIENCE _ Senior legal adviser, Obama campaign, 2007-2008; partner, Covington & Burling LLP, 2001-present; acting U.S....

Obituaries in the news - Added 17 hours ago

Bill Drake LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Bill Drake, who set the tone at hundreds of pop stations with a radio format that placed music _ rather than disc jockeys _ at the center of the broadcast, died Saturday. He was 71. Drake...

NYC cathedral damaged in 2001 fire rededicated - Added 17 hours ago

African drums boomed and pipe organ music swelled as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine opened for worship Sunday after years of cleanup from a fire that struck the world's largest Gothic cathedral in 2001. The...

Eau de Penn State smells of flowers, not football - Added 17 hours ago

Fans of Penn State can smell like the school for just $60. A fragrance developer says it has made a perfume and a cologne inspired by Pennsylvania State University's blue and white colors and its campus vegetation. ...

Bush sends Rice to India in aftermath of attacks - Added 17 hours ago

President George W. Bush on Sunday dispatched Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to New Delhi in support of India following the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 200 people, including six Americans. Rice and Bush...

Mich. police capture fugitive convicted murderer - Added 18 hours ago

Authorities say a fugitive who served time for murder and is suspected of leading a group of teenage burglars has been captured, four days after escaping from a northern Michigan jail. Police in the Detroit suburb of...

Biden picks key staff for vice president's office - Added 20 hours ago

Vice President-elect Joe Biden said Sunday he had chosen a close adviser of more than 25 years as his counselor and had picked two other longtime political advisers for key posts in his office. Michael C. Donilon, who...

Man convicted in eagle deaths grateful for pardon - Added 20 hours ago

Leslie Owen Collier was surrounded by cattle at a livestock auction when his cell phone rang. It was the White House. Twelve years after pleading guilty to federal charges in the deaths of three bald eagles, Collier...

Police: Houston is gun pipeline to Mexican cartels - Added 21 hours ago

Houston has become a firearms marketplace for Mexican drug cartels, according to federal law enforcement officials. Gangsters have spent millions in Texas on military-style weapons and ammunition that are being used in...

Students lie, cheat, steal, but say they're good - Added 22 hours ago

In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are too apathetic about ethical...

Laura Bush says she will mostly 'miss the people' - Added 23 hours ago

Laura Bush soon will no longer live in the country's most famous mansion or be able to get away to the coveted Camp David presidential retreat. But beyond the perks, she says what she will miss most about being first...

It's a Fraser fir for White House Christmas tree - Added 23 hours ago

First lady Laura Bush kicked off the holiday season Sunday by standing out in the rain to receive this year's White House Christmas tree. A horse-drawn wagon pulled the 20-foot Fraser fir, which will decorate the Blue...

Vt. sex offender to be released after only 3 years - Added 1 day ago

A sex offender whose lenient sentence for molesting a child led to a crackdown on punishment for sexual predators in Vermont will likely be released from prison next month, state corrections officials say. Mark Hulett...

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Exit polls show leftist Social Democrats winning most votes in Romanian parliamentary elections. ...

Vatican exhibit on display only in Houston museum - Added 1 day ago

The only exhibit of Vatican artifacts outside the papal capital is on display in an unlikely spot _ the National Museum of Funeral History, an exhibit hall that celebrates coffins, hearses and other ceremonial aspects...

Refugees from Bhutan settle in Pittsburgh - Added 1 day ago

Chitra Prassad Gautam and his family watch in awe as water comes out of the shower head in the bathroom of their new apartment. "I have a question," Gautam says, holding up a bottle of shampoo. "Do I put this in my...

Officials: Obama set to introduce Clinton Monday - Added 1 day ago

A deal with Bill Clinton over his post-White House work helped clear the way for Hillary Rodham Clinton to join President-elect Barack Obama's national security team as secretary of state, reshaping a once-bitter...

Autoworker chief pleads for government aid - Added 1 day ago

The head of the United Auto Workers made a public plea Sunday for government help for U.S. carmakers as the Big Three put the final touches on stabilization plans to submit to Congress. "We cannot afford to see these...

Iraqi doctors come to US for training, fellowship - Added 1 day ago

Being an ear, nose and throat specialist in Iraq doesn't feel so dangerous any more for Kareem, one of 27 Iraqi medical doctors who spent the past month learning about health care in the United States. Amid the...

Is gay the new black? Marriage ban spurs debate - Added 1 day ago

Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all. Gay marriage is not a civil right, opponents counter, insisting that...

Problems prompt manual docking at space station - Added 1 day ago

A Russian cosmonaut used a joystick to guide a modernized cargo ship to the international space station Sunday after problems with an automated system prompted a last-minute switch to a manual docking. The Progress...

Late workers, students get notes blaming NY subway - Added 1 day ago

People late for school or work because of New York City subway delays can get notes from the transit agency to give to their teachers or bosses. The New York City Transit division says it gives passengers the notes so...

Ukrainian first lady tours Pittsburgh hospital - Added 1 day ago

The first lady of Ukraine says she wants to develop cooperation between hospitals in her country and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Kateryna Yushchenko toured the medical center's Children's Hospital on...

Man convicted in eagle deaths grateful for pardon - Added 1 day ago

Leslie Owen Collier was surrounded by cattle at a livestock auction when his cell phone rang. It was the White House. Twelve years after pleading guilty to federal charges in the deaths of three bald eagles, Collier...

Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders - Added 1 day ago

Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and psychological...

Plea deal offered to 8-year-old murder suspect - Added 1 day ago

Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to an 8-year-old boy charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his father and another man in their eastern Arizona home, court records show. Complete details of the offer...

Hundreds flee raided Dallas cockfight; 3 arrested - Added 1 day ago

Police say they raided a cockfight in a rural part of Dallas, arresting three organizers and sending hundreds of spectators fleeing into the woods. Police spokesman Jerry Monreal says nearly 400 people who paid $20...

After 55 days, contest ends for 2 living in truck - Added 1 day ago

A Wisconsin radio station had to make two contestants an offer they couldn't refuse in order to get them to quit a game to win a new car. Tommy Kempfer, 26, of Sun Prairie, and Lisa Thompson, 40, of Westfield, had been...

After mother's slaying, daughter awaits dad's fate - Added 1 day ago

Her father waits behind a glass wall, clothed in the jail standard gray-and-white striped shirt and pants. He has tidied up some since their last visit: What's left of his thinning hair has been trimmed, and his face is...

Obama team repackaging Clinton after campaign digs - Added 1 day ago

It wasn't too long ago that Barack Obama and his advisers were tripping over one another to tear down Hillary Rodham Clinton's foreign policy credentials. She was dismissed as a commander in chief wanna-be who did...

Today in History - Nov. 30 - Added 1 day ago

Today is Sunday, Nov. 30, the 335th day of 2008. There are 31 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 30, 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the...

Dem officials: Obama chooses Clinton as top envoy - Added 1 day ago

Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Sen. Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state on Monday. ...

Thief steals Thanksgiving dinner off woman's porch - Added 1 day ago

A Wisconsin family found it hard to be thankful after a thief made off with their turkey dinner. Lillian Moore says she sent a cooler stuffed with Thanksgiving food to her daughter Cindy, only to have it stolen from...

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Democratic officials say Obama will nominate Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state Monday. ...

Scars remain 50 years after Chicago school inferno - Added 1 day ago

Seven-year-old Dan Taglia heard the fire alarm bell from his classroom on Dec. 1, 1958, but hoped it was a signal that students were getting ice cream. It was too late in the day for a fire drill, and anyway the nuns...

Sought: Wal-Mart shoppers who trampled NY worker - Added 1 day ago

Police are reviewing surveillance videos of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban Wal-Mart worker to death, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges. Nassau County...

End of the yellow brick road for Ind. Oz Festival - Added 1 day ago

An annual Wizard of Oz festival that once attracted 75,000 fans of the classic film to see the actors who played Munchkins has been cancelled, its organizers announced Friday. Brenda Maynard, president of the Indiana...

Chicago couple wait for first kiss at the altar - Added 1 day ago

Won't kiss on the first date? How about waiting until marriage? Chicagoans Melody LaLuz and Claudaniel Fabien shared their first kiss Saturday at the altar. The two teach abstinence at the city's public schools and...

5 deer die jumping from overpass onto Ind. highway - Added 1 day ago

Police in Indiana say five deer that wandered onto a highway overpass have jumped to their deaths on Interstate 69, one of them crashing through a tractor-trailer's windshield. Indiana Department of Natural Resources...

National Forest visitors down, no one knows why - Added 2 days ago

In the years after World War II, Americans packed up their young families and Army surplus camping gear and headed into the national forests to hunt, fish, and hike. Going to the woods was part of what it meant to be an...

Fetus at Detroit wastewater plant puzzles police - Added 2 days ago

Investigators in Detroit say they have little to go on in the case of a fetus found in a municipal wastewater treatment plant. The fetus estimated at 3 to 4 months of development was found Friday in the sewer system...

Fear discourages US residents from visiting Mexico - Added 2 days ago

The recent spate of drug-related killings in Nogales, Mexico, is driving apart what have long been close-knit communities, discouraging some residents of its Arizona sister city from crossing the border. Even lifelong...

Meltdown fallout: some parents rethink toy-buying - Added 2 days ago

In a season that inspires earnest letters about toys, one notable batch is being sent not by kids to Santa's workshop but by parents to the executive suites of real-world toy makers. The message: Please, in these days...

50 years after school inferno, scars remain - Added 2 days ago

Seven-year-old Dan Taglia heard the fire alarm bell from his classroom on Dec. 1, 1958, but hoped it was a signal that students were getting ice cream. It was too late in the day for a fire drill, and anyway the nuns...

Bush's statement on shootings in India - Added 2 days ago

Text of President George W. Bush's statement Saturday on the attacks in India, as provided by the White House: On behalf of all Americans, Laura and I extend our condolences to those suffering from the terrorist...